THANK GOD FOR BEING SUCH A KNOW-IT- ALL
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, who writes well about prayer. “I should like very much to meet Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford (who said that Waugh’s description of the resurrection of the dead put her in mind of a bunch of guests madly scrambling for their coats at the end of along and probably drunken party) in heaven. “I do not like to burden God with gratuitous information. For example, I am sure he knows I’d like to meet Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford in heaven, so I don’t tell him that. One of the things that makes God is that he knows everything (before I know myself, he knows me); so when I have wishes in regard to other people, I just say their names. I let him fill in the rest. I don’t think he requires resumes or detailed specifications. In any case, he seldom arranges people or events in a way that is consistent with…
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